It’s almost over for Hillary: This election is a mass insurrection against a rigged system

Salon ^ | Feb 7, 2016 | Bill Curry

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Sunday, Feb 7, 2016 08:01 PM +0900

It’s almost over for Hillary: This election is a mass insurrection against a rigged system

Sanders has ended the coronation and fired up the grass roots. Now Clinton's electability argument is crumbling too

Bill Curry

It would be hard to overstate what Bernie Sanders has already achieved in his campaign for president, or the obstacles he’s had to surmount in order to achieve it. Not only has he turned a planned Hillary Clinton coronation into an exercise in grass-roots democracy, he’s reset the terms of the debate. We are edging closer to the national conversation we so desperately need to have. If we get there, all credit goes to Bernie.

Many of those obstacles were put in place by Democratic national party chair and Clinton apparatchik Deborah Wasserman Schultz. Without pretense of due process, Schultz slashed the number of 2016 debates to six, down from 26 in 2008, and scheduled as many as she could on weekends when she figured no one would be watching. To deprive would-be challengers of free exposure, Schultz robbed voters of free and open debate and ceded the spotlight to the dark vaudeville of the Republicans. That Sanders got this far in spite of her is a miracle in itself.

Sanders got bagged again in Iowa, this time by a state party chair, one Andrea McGuire. Like Schultz, McGuire’s specialty is high-dollar fund raising, and like Schultz she was deeply involved in Clinton’s 2008 campaign. Under the esoteric rules of the Iowa Democratic caucuses, and after a string of lucky coin tosses, Clinton eked out a 700.52 to 696.86 margin, not in votes cast but in a mysterious commodity known as “delegate equivalents.”

We’re electing a president, not the senior warden of a Mason’s lodge.

[ModelBreaker]

Clinton=LBJ. Sanders=McCarthy. Biden=HHH. Trump=Nixon. Who is George Wallace.

[Gene Eric]

The pic with the bikers is the best.

[Boomer]

I wonder if Biden or Bloomberg will suddenly decide, er, be forced to run to keep Bernie out.

How would that work at this point? They haven't been in any debates. The primaries have already started. They have no ground game in place. Bloombutt has money but I doubt Biden has anything. They would have to sweep the country without any momentum. Seems like a non starter to me.

[StAnDeliver]

"All because the Democrat Party feels that Shrillary must get her turn at all costs."

Because if she doesn't, they don't eat. That's what this election is all about - forcing as many of the entrenched Democrat Party mandarins off the Federal teat.

[StAnDeliver]

"It's the Repblicans to lose and the 'rats know it, so why not run VP Eeeewww!?"

Some of the smart DemoC'rats know it and thus are going to offer up Sanders for defeat so the day after, the Clinton libtard wing can punish & purge that Bern leftard wing of the party - the leftard spectrum that starts with Bobo (who has lost Congress, governorships, statehouses by the dozens) and stretches all the way out to Sanders and beyond.

This is exactly why Wasserman-Schultz hasn't been fired, and why Blumenthal hasn't been indicted.

[CincyRichieRich]

She gets 6 coin flips her wa without a legal challenge from Bernie...seems like her campaign is fairly healthy still...any indictments from the FBI yet?

[TalBlack]

Stamped the ‘Gator to death in all likely hood. There is a record of a “gator (or croc)trying the very same thing with a full grown elephant. The gator was summarily flipped thru the air and on to the shore and STOMPED FLAT!

[Neidermeyer]

[Not gonna take it anymore]

Thanks for posting the link.

[HamiltonJay]

Biden is creepy, but the clip of Cruz trying to kiss a girl who clearly wanted nothing to do with him, is just as creepy.

[KrisKrinkle]

You’re welcome.

[KrisKrinkle]

You’re welcome.

[Persephone Kore]

matt04: I wonder if Biden or Bloomberg will suddenly decide, er, be forced to run to keep Bernie out.

Boomer: How would that work at this point? They haven't been in any debates. The primaries have already started. They have no ground game in place. Bloombutt has money but I doubt Biden has anything. They would have to sweep the country without any momentum. Seems like a non starter to me.

That's not the way it works. It's not about debates and primaries. It's about who can get a majority of delegates in backroom deals at the convention and seemingly unify the Dems enough to run a credible general-election campaign.

The superdelegates are the key. There will be enough of them to give Clinton the nomination, or to deny her the nomination, whichever the Party wants.

If they really want to play hardball, they could even force Clinton to drop out (for "health reasons") under threat of indictment.

I'm not saying it will happen, but nominating Biden or someone else is doable. Biden may not have money, but he would get the Dem party ground force, and he could unify the Clinton and Sanders supporters, who hate each other right now.

Bloomberg, on the other hand, really is a non-starter, in spite of his money. You can't win a general election with a base of limousine liberals. Plus the Dems don't want him to run 3rd party—he'd siphon more D votes than R votes.